Tag: cybernetics
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Response to Simpolism on ACiM
This is the fifth installment in a ten-part series. Simpolism has kindly written two posts in response to my own recent barrage—the first, “Is Communication ‘Manipulation’?” investigates his gut reaction to the idea that in communicating, he might manipulate others; the second, “On Behavioral Hermeneutics,” tries to figure out what kind of claim ACiM is.…
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ACiM is a natural extension of cybernetic theory
This is the fourth installment in a ten-part series. At the core of cybernetics is the idea of agents—synthetic and organic, human and machine and animal—as servomechanisms, or “servos.” Servos are machines which use feedback to correct their actions, using some sort of sensory system and built-in encoder to monitor their environment, and ensure their…
Suspended Reason 